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Daily Beast columnist Clive Irving has lived on both sides of the Atlantic, which gives him a unique perspective of the Rupert Murdoch empire of tabloids and channels.

So, when Fox News journalist Chris Wallace announced abruptly Sunday morning that he'd be leaving the network effective immediately, it prompted a response from Irving that called into question the legitimacy of the "news" portion of Fox News.

It has been less than a month since former chief of staff Mark Meadows published his tell-all book about his time in the White House. According to a new report from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the lead-up to it, some of those passages in his book have prompted questions.

The 52-page report details many of the communications Meadows had with Jan. 6 event organizers, elected members of Congress he pushed for contacts in their state who could help former President Donald Trump and more.

The new 52-page report from the House Select Committee on the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6 details a list of people who called chief of staff Mark Meadows begging then-President Donald Trump to stop the attack.

While many attempted to call Trump himself, he wasn't answering many calls. That's when people turned to other Trump staffers as well as family members like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

The Jan. 6 House Select Committee released a report detailing the case against former chief of staff Mark Meadows for criminal contempt.

Publishing the case on Sunday, the details revealed that Meadows asked members of Congress to help connect former President Donald Trump with state lawmakers so that he could make the case for overturning the election.

Legal analysts have said that allies of former President Donald Trump are working to run out the clock on the Jan. 6 House Committee. Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, Washington Post reporter Carol Leonig characterized the appeals courts as being completely unwilling to give Trump a break on his lawsuits to protect any evidence from being exposed by the committee.

"A lot of people were listening in, if you will, as advisers to Donald Trump, as cheerleaders for Donald Trump's effort to claim that the election was rigged and stolen, especially in late December," she began. "And this PowerPoint presentation, which my colleagues so, you know, explosively, as you say, report, was one in which it was promulgating ideas and options for how to change the electors, how to claim that there was hacking that made the election corrupt. And Mark Meadows, to our understanding, was being briefed on ways that perhaps the government could help Mr. [Philip] Waldron, this retired Army colonel, help him establish that foreign governments or others had hacked the election."

A group of "Bored Historians" crafted a cartoon to celebrate the decision Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) made to leave Congress, even before the 2022 election.

History Falls Apart tweeted their six-minute video that begins with Nunes sitting in a hot tub with two scantily clad women on a yacht somewhere off the coast of California. Wearing orange arm floaties, Nunes complains that any time anyone ever makes fun of him he'll launch a lawsuit.

The Orlando, Florida rally with former President Donald Trump and disgraced former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly certainly attracted thousands of people, but it was a far cry from selling out the venue. In fact, photos show the entire upper mezzanine was sparse. It was supposed to have been closed off, but it appears that some were able to get to the top rows.

While Trump typically didn't charge for his campaign rallies, his joint events with O'Reilly start at $100 for the cheap tickets. It could have been the major barrier to the crowd size as many folks are using extra income to buy Christmas presents.

As part of a conversation about poverty in the worst state in the United States, Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director for the Center for Sustainable Development went after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for continuing to deny help to his neighbors.

"This is so basic, you know," Sachs explained about the initiatives in the Build Back Better plan. "What's talked about in this plan, for instance, pre-K, child care, basic health for hearing and so on is so basic. Over other peer countries of ours, whether it's Canada or Britain or France or Germany, they all have this. This is nothing special. This is the most basic needs, but what's happening in the Senate is that rich people are protecting rich people. It's called plutocracy. You have rich people like Sen. Manchin, he represents an impoverished state but he himself is personally rich. He's an owner of two big companies. He's got millions of dollars of personal wealth, but even more than that, he's got his campaign funders saying to him, 'We don't want to pay any more tax.' The richest people in this country so that's what this Build Back Better is about. To rich people in America pay a little bit of their unbelievable wealth so that poorer people can have their kids in pre-K, so that they can raise their children, so that people can get hearing aids. It's -- it's just so basic as this."

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined with other members of Congress in a secret trip to Ukraine where they could investigate the specifics about what Russia is doing to threaten the U.S. ally.

Speaking to CNN Sunday, Gallego explained that the massive military presence sitting on the Ukraine/Russia border is "a serious threat to Ukraine." He also said that the U.S. needs to be prepared to act on that.

It was revealed Wednesday that former chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over some of his communications from his time serving in the White House. Among those were his personal emails and text messages. But as the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed, Meadows was using a personal email and phone while communicating with government officials. It's the same thing that Republicans told former Secretary Hillary Clinton was unacceptable.

To make matters worse, Meadows refused to turn over everything to the House committee.

Former television news host Kari Lake, a Republican gubernatorial candidate for Arizona, announced that she fully intends to build "the wall" along with Mexico border with Arizona steel. There's just one problem, all of the available lands where the border fence can be built already has a fence on it.

Lake made the comment on her social media accounts, posting a photo of herself with a big stack of steel beams. There hasn't been a shortage of anti-immigrant governors in Arizona. Govs. Doug Ducey and Jan Brewer have long been supporters of former President Donald Trump and his "wall" ploy.

This week, Americans remembered the bombing of Pearl Harbor 80 years ago. World War II soldiers gathered to remember those who died and heroes who would rise to risk their own lives to save others. But, behind the scenes, those currently living and serving in Pearl Harbor couldn't even drink the water coming out of their pipes.

CNN.com reported that the failed infrastructure in Hawaii led the state's Department of Health to alert the Navy that they must take action to clean their drinking water after they found a petroleum leak near Honolulu.